Ex-NFL player Clinton Hart tackles childhood obesity

Posted by Michael David Smith on July 5, 2012, 7:11 AM EST

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At a time when some football players are saying they don’t want their kids playing the sport because of the risks involved, one former NFL player says the biggest risk to kids’ health come when parents don’t encourage them to be active at all.

Clinton Hart, who played defensive back for the Eagles, Chargers and Rams from 2003 to 2009, now works as a personal trainer in Ocala, Florida. And while he trains adults for a living, he trains groups of children for free. Because he says the enormous increase in childhood obesity, which has more than tripled in the last 30 years, has to be stopped.

If there where more free programs where kids can train with NFL players, worldwide i can guarantee you there would be more kids working out, just look at how many kids here in my state, that sign up for lesean mccoy football camp last week, for like 3 or 4 days each kid had to pay around $250 to attend!!!